After years of preparation, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) just weeks ago decided to change the Chandrayaan-2 mission, which will now see the Lander — that was initially going to soft land directly and unload the Rover — to actually go around the Moon in an elliptical orbit before descending on the dusty terrain for a battery of tests.

NASA's Curiosity rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane in findings released on Thursday that mark some of the strongest evidence ever that Earth's neighbour may have harbored life.Read News

More than a billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just 18 hours, a new study reports. The distance from our planet to the moon, scientists say, is one major reason for the extra six hours we have today.Read News

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully placed communication satellite GSAT-6A in orbit and also set the ball rolling for its bigger missions in the future. The space agency tested certain improved critical systems in the launch vehicle - GSLV Mk-II.Read News

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard its historic solar probe launching this summer. "This probe will journey to a region humanity has never explored before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.Read News

Physicists are constantly debating the nature of these collapsed stars. Physics is deterministic, meaning that knowing exactly what happened in the past, such as the origins of the universe, determines just one future. This would have to mean that Einstein&#039;s theory of general relativity predicted singularities.Read News

Newspaper headlines last week screamed that India's polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) created history by lobbing 104 satellites in a single mission, shattering the Russian record of 37. What was missed out was the intricacy required to do so.

I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years,” stated Ellen Stofan on Tuesday , National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief scientist , during a public panel in WashingtRead News

A new mineral-rich structure discovered from a Martian meteorite has led scientists to believe that there may be niche environments on Mars subsurface that support life. The ovoid structure discovered in the Nakhla Martian meteorite is made of nanocrystalline iron-rich clay and contains a variety of minerals.Read News

In what could provide a new explanation for the speed of evolution and has implications for the interpretation of climate models, researchers have found that the movement rate of plates carrying the Earth's crust may not be constant over time. Our results challenge the view that the rate of plate movement is stable over time," said Kent Condie, professor from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in the US.
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Astronomers have discovered a new type of rocky planet beyond the solar system that weighs more than 17 times as much as Earth while being just over twice the size, scientists said on Monday. The so-called "mega-Earth" circles a very old star called Kepler-10, which is located about 560 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Draco.
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Researchers have confirmed the presence of an unusually distant galaxy cluster, JKCS 041. The structures and star populations of massive galaxies appear to change as they age, but much about how these galaxies formed and evolved remains mysterious. Many of the oldest and most massive galaxies reside in clusters,Read News

Researchers have uncovered evidence of an "ocean" of water under Enceladus, one of Saturn's smaller moons. Data collected from the Cassini spacecraft shows that Enceladus is a shiny world about 300 miles in diameter, and has a subsurface "regional sea” with a rocky bottom.Read News